The root task for civilization: increase median healthy life years and median after-tax income by forcing public resources toward welfare-maximizing work.
Current cost of delay: humanity is losing about $101 trillion per year to the Political Dysfunction Tax — the gap between realized welfare and what a non-dysfunctional government would produce. That is the burn rate every child task below this one is fighting against.
The current bottleneck is ending war and disease. Everything below this task should either help humans vote, recruit two more humans, register plaintiffs, summon jurors, remind leaders, or make the 1% Treaty credible enough to pass.